Exploding by a word

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I have a titles such as The Oak Tree or The Pine

I set up $stylename = explode("The", $row->title);

This should explode the phrase into

$stylename[0] = 'The'; $stylename[1] = 'Oak Tree';

But instead $stylename[0] is empty.

How can I alter the above code to export what I require?

Thanks

Explode eliminates the item used as delimiter that's why The is not present. — Prix
– Prix, Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 9:03

Alec Teal · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:03:56Z

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Explode splits at the string you give it, so you have "" (nothing) then "The" (which was what it split at) then (the rest of it), more simply "abc" when you explode with b yields the two strings "a" and "c".

Use preg_split with a trivial regex instead, or artificially add the "the" back in, Regex is better as you can make it case insensitive, which you probably want ("the" in titles should have a lower case "t")

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:03

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xdazz · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:04:45Z

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Use preg_split:

// split on the spaces which has `The` in front of it.
$stylename = preg_split('/(?<=The)\s+/', $row->title);

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:04

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2cent · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:08:52Z

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explode(" ", $row->title, 1) should do it the way you want.

1 is the limit of how many times the given string should be splitted.

See http://php.net/explode

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:08

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Nouphal.M · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:14:01Z

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Try

$stylename = explode(" ", "The Oak tree");
$result[0] = $stylename[0];
unset($stylename[0]);
$result[1] = implode(" ",$stylename);
unset($stylename);

see demo here

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:14

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Samy Massoud · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:18:12Z

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do this

$stylename = explode(" ", trim($row->title),1);

This should work

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:18

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